Sergei Lavrov Quotes

For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.

Adoption is a global issue these days - it's certainly current - and it's encouraging for a lot of couples whether they're straight or gay.

I've been involved in the offering-up-adoption-as-another-choice business for a long time.

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.

I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I mean, no offense. Just because there are so many kids here that need our help.

I'd adopt an older child, not a baby.

The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.

I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind.

We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.

I always knew I would adopt. Always.

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.

If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.

Before I met my husband, I was just about to look into adoption.

If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.

I had a brief period of questioning whether I should perhaps adopt a child. And my New Yorker editor, Henry Finder, was horrified by the notion.

There's a lot of people in my family who've adopted children.

I don't want to have another baby, but my little sister is adopted, and I was hoping that one day I could do that...There are so many possibilities.

I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids.

I was adopted. I was born in Edinburgh, and adopted when I was about two weeks old. And it's a good thing, I think, really, that back then, in '75 when I was born, you were really given a lot more information than you're given now when you're adopted. And you know, you can access that information when you're older.

The last thing that should come between two willing parties, one that wants to adopt and one that wants to find a home, is economics.

I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

If I'm not blessed with children of my own then I'd like to adopt one day - possibly a child from Pakistan.

You are under great scrutiny when you are adopting, more so than natural parents. There are a lot of interviews, screenings etc.